Conjurer

//ˈkʌnd͡ʒəɹə(ɹ)// noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    One who conjures, a magician.

    "July 18 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Dark Knight Riseshttp://www.avclub.com/articles/the-dark-knight-rises-review-batman,82624/ With his crude potato-sack mask and fear-inducing toxins, The Scarecrow, a “psychopharmacologist” at an insane asylum, acts as a conjurer of nightmares, capable of turning his patients’ most terrifying anxieties against them."

  2. 2
    a witch doctor who practices conjury wordnet
  3. 3
    One who performs parlor tricks, sleight of hand.

    "1893 The man is by trade a conjurer and performer, going round the canteens after nightfall, and giving a little entertainment at each. — Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Adventure of the Crooked Man"."

  4. 4
    someone who performs magic tricks to amuse an audience wordnet
  5. 5
    One who conjures; one who calls, entreats, or charges in a solemn manner.
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  1. 6
    One who conjectures shrewdly or judges wisely; a man of sagacity. ironic, obsolete, often

    "Some would be apt to say, he is a Conjurer; for he has found, That a Republick[…] is composed of Men only, and not of Horses"

  2. 7
    A cooking appliance comprising a pot (large or small) with a gridiron wielded beneath it, like a brazier, used for cooking methods such as broiling.

Etymology

From Middle English conjurer, from Anglo-Norman conjurour (“conjurer, conspirator”). Equivalent to conjure + -er.

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